Sports Illustrated’s Chicago Cubs World Series cover is amazing

The Chicago Cubs are World Series champions for the first time in 108-years, and the Sports Illustrated cover to commemorate the moment is amazing.

For the first time in 108-years, the Chicago Cubs are World Series champions. It’s one of the most cathartic sports moments ever, as the longest championship draught in baseball is over, with mantle being passed on to the Cleveland Indians and their historic draught.

If there was ever a way for the Chicago Cubs to break their “cruse”, it was Game 7. It played out not only as a historic moment for sports but also unfolded as one of the greatest baseball games ever. Game 7 of this World Series is up there with other seminal baseball games like Bobby Thompson’s ‘Shot Heard Around The World’ or Game 7 of the 1960 World Series when the Pirates slayed the Yankees.

Cubs fans are going to want to get ready to rush out and buy the latest issue of Sports Illustrated. Anthony Rizzo earned the right as World series issue cover athlete, and everything about it is perfect.

For full disclosure, the Chicago Cubs might have some competition for the 2017 World Series. Back in the summer of 2014, Sports Illustrated anointed the Houston Astros the title of ‘next big thing’, and they might not be wrong.

Houston has a lot of young talent, not unlike the way this Cubs team began to grow so many years ago, and it might be time for them to pop. Houston made a playoff run in 2015 but were absent this postseason.

The moment belongs to Chicago though. Houston, Cleveland and all of the other World Series hopefuls for next year are just that — hopeful. They’re not champions. For the first time in 108-years, the Chicago Cubs are.